Warp Question

[mark726]

My technological pet peeve is intraship transporting, which is supposed to be more dangerous than regular transporting. Why? It should be much safer -- the computer knows the ship's precise layout already.

I was always under the impression that it isn't less safe, it's just more energy consuming, because you use the 'long range effects' of the transporter (i.e. not being directly on the pad) twice...in dematerialization and rematerialization. So it just took more energy, and in emergency situations, you might not have that to spare.